Bruno's Blog

Looking back, I feel I've been really unfortunate about what happened in Turkey, but fortunate in another way, because I wasn't hurt.

I was having a good race on Sunday. Despite starting 15th, after I lost my front wing at the start of Saturday's Feature Race ­ which I call 'normal bad luck' ­ I was charging through the field.

I had a great start, running P10 on the first lap, and I was making up place after place. Everything was going so well, challenging for points and setting fastest laps, but then ...

Hitting a dog on a racetrack is something you would never expect to happen, especially at 175mph. The biggest problem for me was that the marshals were not prepared to cope with that sort of thing. I was on a straight with a crest, so I couldn't see what was coming next.

They should have been waving double-yellow flags, because then I would have slowed down for the imminent danger. That's what made me a bit angry about it.

I had no chance to react. I hit the dog at 282kph. When you are travelling at that speed and something swerves into your path, you can't do anything.

I could have tried to swerve, but I probably would have ended up in the wall, and I wasn't going to risk that. I had too little space to my left to do such a big move. So I had to hit the dog. It ruined my race, which was quite unfortunate, but I'm happy I'm okay.

It was a shock, obviously. I've never wanted to kill an animal in my life, I'm not that kind of person. I quite like dogs, and I'm shocked about what happened. As soon as I hit it, I found it quite hard to believe. Such a thing, you never expect, you know? It proved that I'm experiencing everything motor racing can throw at me!

Now I have to move on from this. Bounce back like I did from the final round of GP2 Asia in Dubai to finish on the podium in the first race of the main series at Barcelona.

I have to remember that Barcelona was a great way to start the championship, and Turkey showed we had the pace but not the luck. But at least if we don't score points, it's not because we're off the pace, it's because of external factors.

It's Monaco next, and I qualified in the top 10 last year in my Arden car, so I'm looking forward to putting my experience and a (hopefully!) faster car to good use. If I could get a win there, it would be amazing!

I will keep pushing and I'm more determined than ever to score good points in every weekend to come. Giorgio Pantano and Romain Grosjean have taken a points advantage out of this, so I will try and win the championship from here.